Severe color problem (happens to all browsers)

[Daniel Kaplan]

This is a cross post, but this problem is so weird to me that I just had to
put it out there to as many people as I can. Someone somewhere must
recognize what this is??!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!

Ok, this is about XP, am sure, because it happens in IE as well as a
freshly installed copy of Firefox.

This person let her mother mess with her computer (and she did a
number on the colors).

Now what happens is that ANY browser will not show all colors, or
navigation tabs, etc. I took a picture of both screens showing the
good on the top and the bad on the bottom. Had to use a different
computer to take the good picture.

www.warptv.com/image/weirdness.jpg

You can see that the grey navigation tabs on the right side do not
show on the bottom version. They are there, they work, but only cause
she knows they are there.

After reseting IE settings didn't work, we downloaded and installed
Firefox, same thing.

Which leads me to believe that it's an OS thing. Checked her monitor
settings, it's set to the highest color, etc.

PLEASE, THIS IS FREAKING ME OUT.

Anyone have any clues??????

Thanks ahead, as always.

 

[JS]

Have you checked the 'Display' properties in the Control Panel. More
specifically the 'Themes' and 'Appearance' tabs.

JS

 

[Noozer]

This is a cross post, but this problem is so weird to me that I just had
to put it out there to as many people as I can. Someone somewhere must
recognize what this is??!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!

Ok, this is about XP, am sure, because it happens in IE as well as a
freshly installed copy of Firefox.

This person let her mother mess with her computer (and she did a
number on the colors).

Tools->Options->Colors button->checkmark ONLY in Use Windows
colors->OK->Accesibility->remove ALL checkmarks->OK->OK->exit

Restart IE and see if it's improved.

 

[M8RIX]

Have you checked the accessibility options?

 

[Daniel Kaplan]

Tools->Options->Colors button->checkmark ONLY in Use Windows
colors->OK->Accesibility->remove ALL checkmarks->OK->OK->exit

Thanks to all, and yes while not at her machine I can tell it was an
Accesinbilty option because I can reproduce the problem on my machine
reversing the above. Although I have one concern here listed at the bottom
***

Thanks agian to everyone who replied.


*** Why did it affect a brand new install of Firefox?????

 

[HeyBub]

Thanks to all, and yes while not at her machine I can tell it was an
Accesinbilty option because I can reproduce the problem on my machine
reversing the above. Although I have one concern here listed at the
bottom ***

Thanks agian to everyone who replied.


*** Why did it affect a brand new install of Firefox?????

Do you have a cat? Firefox has been known to afflict felines with warts.

If there is no cat to infect, perhaps the soul-snatcher picked the next-best
target?

 

[Daniel Kaplan]

Have you checked the accessibility options?

I can make it happen and unhappen on my machine with this, as everyone says.
My friend at this point says it doesn't fix her machine, and while I won't
be at her machine till Monday there is one thing that makes me believe her:

I can only make it happen on IE on my machine, on her machine it happens on
ANY browser, not just IE. I was there, we downloaded and installed Firefox
and the same thing happened.

So while I believe that this has something to do with the "accessibility
options" is there somewhere to set it SYSTEM WIDE, and not just on IE?
Because when I played with it on my machine even via Control Panel, it still
did NOT affect Firefox.

Please, am so clueless....and hints would be appreciated.

Thanks....

 

[M8RIX]

There are system wide accessibility options in the control panel. See if the
"Use high contrast" box is checked in the display tab. "Daniel Kaplan"